During recent weeks, several friars and a Franciscan sister have passed to eternal life.
Br. Donald Rewers, OFM, 75, a member of the Province of St. John the Baptist, died May 4.
Two friars from Assumption BVM Province died on May 3: Fr. Barnabas Gorski, OFM, 82, and Fr. Robert Konopa, OFM, 63. Fr. Robert died in Milwaukee, Wisc., and Fr. Barnabas in Casablanca, Morocco, where he had been a missionary for 23 years.
Sr. David Mary Tyrell, OSF, 87, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, N.Y., died May 12 in Allegany.
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